Hi Caroline, Those news activities sound great, but I agree that the "five minute a day" things really do take a chunk out of (especially short) classes. In Laura Robb's Teaching Reading in the Middle School, which is pretty much my "teaching reading Bible" and I am re-reading it right now, she suggests alternating response journal instruction for a month or so, then teaching vocabulary for a couple months, then moving on to spelling and grammar (though I am guessing you don't have to cover those, if you only teach reading...) Anyway, I thought the idea of alternating "warm-up" type activities might be a useful one to you....and you could also choose to do them two-three times a week instead of daily.
I hope that helps some! I've taught a 55-minute reading block before, and it was definitely too short. May Dartez 6-8 Title Language Arts Georgia On Jul 3, 2007, at 12:42 PM, Caroline Mooney wrote: > one last word--all this "5 min. a day" stuff is really starting to > take a bite out of my 50 minute reading class. > > caroline > 7th grade reading > dalton ga _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
